Meghan Markle: Experts discuss court case

Meghan Markle’s court case against the Mail on Sunday could come to a “rapid conclusion”, royal commentators have claimed. The Duchess of Sussex has reportedly submitted a summary judgement application asking for a judgment to be given on the grounds that Associated Newspapers has no real prospect of successfully defending their case against her legal action. ITV Royal Rota podcast hosts Chris Ship and Lizzie Robinson discussed the updates to the trial.

Ms Robinson told listeners: “[Meghan is] applying for the case to be decided by what’s called a summary judgement.

“That’s basically a legal step which would mean that they wouldn’t have to go to trial at all.

“There won’t be any witnesses called either.

“It would just be decided by a judge.”

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Mr Ship continued: “The hearing for that will now take place virtually in January 19 and 20.

“If it goes to trial, it will be huge, won’t it?

“They said the trial, it it goes ahead, would have been in October but was delayed.

“If the trial doesn’t go ahead then the judge is basically going to sit down and decide it on the facts that are in front of him.”

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He added: “So this whole thing could actually come to a rapid conclusion.

“That, of course, depends on what the judge decides.

“It could also be shunted off until the autumn of 2021.”

If Meghan’s legal team are unsuccessful in their request for a summary judgment the case will go to trial like normal.

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The Duchess is suing Associated Newspapers over five articles published that included contents of a private letter she sent to her father in August 2018 without her permission.

Originally the trial, before it was delayed, was due to start on January 11.

The autumn postponement was made for confidential reasons.

Prince Harry also launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday over an article that claimed he had abandoned his military duties since leaving the Royal Family.

In response, the newspaper wrote an article at the end of last month apologising for the story and saying that they gave a donation to the Duke’s Invictus Games Foundation.

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